Match Day Thread The Euro 2016 thread

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It's d-day...

France v Romania - 8.00pm

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Three fixtures tomorrow:

Albania v Switzerland - 2.00pm
Wales v Slovakia - 5.00pm
England v Russia - 8.00pm
 
Was genuinely just about to post this myself <laugh> You bastard OLM.

In terms of the quality involved, it should be the best Euros in quite a while. Hopefully it lives up to it.
 
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Quill's predictions:

Favourites: France, Germany
Decent chances: Belgium, England, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Dark Horses: Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, Wales
 
Right, I'm going to try and predict the tournament, then I'll come back and see how close I was. Will put them in a spoiler box so that this post isn't too long.

Group Stages (Winners, then Runners Up):

A - France, Switzerland
B - England, Wales
C - Germany, Poland
D - Spain, Croatia
E - Belgium, Italy
F - Austria, Portugal

Third Place teams (four of the six go through, those four in bold):
A - Romania
B - Slovakia
C - Northern Ireland
D - Czech Republic
E - Rep. of Ireland
F - Iceland

Round of 16 (winners in bold) (the R16 fixtures depend on how the 3rd place teams who qualified finish, so from this point it could be 100% wrong):
Switzerland - Poland
Spain - Slovakia
England - Czech Rep.
Austria - Italy
Germany - Romania
Belgium - Croatia
France - N. Ireland
Wales - Portugal

Quarter Finals (winners in bold):
Switzerland - Spain
England
- Austria
Germany - Belgium
France
- Wales

Semi Finals (winners in bold):
Spain - England
Belgium - France

Final (winner in bold):
Spain - France

Best Player: Antoine Griezmann (France)
Top Scorer: Romelu Lukaku (Belgium)

Spoiler: England get further than I thought I'd predict them, and my sweep doesn't win.
 
I usually watch nearly every game in the tournament but there's too many teams now, too many minnows.
 
Quill's predictions:

Favourites: France, Germany
Decent chances: Belgium, England, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Dark Horses: Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, Wales

Can we have a reverse dark horse? I'm going for Belgium not to get out of their group.
 
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Spain have got absolutely no chance! Poor in qualification, poor in prep games and who can forget world cup 2 years ago!
Germany have too many defensive injuries to go all the way so my tip is
France, Belgium or England to win it.
Dark horses Austria and Wales.
 
Any fancy sticking their neck out on the 'surprise' player of the tournament? There's always someone who rises to prominance, and it doesnt have to be a 'no namer', I just mean not one of the real superstars.

The way he's been playing Kinglsey Coman could be a good shout.